Category: Song Reviews

I keep reminiscing about the 90s with this song. It brings memories of my teenage and school years. When life was simpler and besides studying, I spent my days watching MTV’s music videos and listening to albums from top to bottom in one sitting. The Singer Edwyn Collins is a Scottish musician. He was the singer of the 80s post-punk band Orange Juice. After his band split, he became a solo artist. The Album  Gorgeous George…

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The Singer Alanis Morissette is a Canadian alternative rock singer with a powerful voice that has been internationally famous since the 90s. She became a strong feminist icon with her music and lyrics, especially with the song You Oughta Know and the album, where it belongs. The Album Jagged Little Pill, is Morissette’s third studio album. It was released on June 13th, 1995. The album reached a big commercial international success, featuring hit tracks like…

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Electric Six is a rock band from Detroit, USA. They mix rock, disco, and punk with comedy elements. The song Danger! High Voltage was released on January, 6th, 2003, as a single from their debut studio album, Fire. The former frontman of The White Stripes, Jack White performed the female vocals on this song, that in the video was lip-synced by the actress, Tina Kanarek. The video shows Tina, and the singer Dick Valentine, as…

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Stratovarius is a Finnish power metal band that formed in the summer of 1984. Unbreakable is a single from Stratovarius’s fourteenth studio album, Nemesis, released on 22 February 2013. I started listening to the band around 1998 and became a super fan. Loved their music, they were, and still are, extraordinarily skilled musicians and I loved that they wrote some of their lyrics on environmental topics. I got the chance to see them live in Chile, in 1999.…

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Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band and on their seventh studio album, Broken Crown Halo, which was released on March 31st, 2014, one of the singles was Nothing Stands In Our Way. This song talks about not giving up on your dreams, no matter what happens, or what life throws at you, you have to keep going, always. Fight for what you want, it’s the only way to achieve it. I love this…

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The Band Barco de Brujos is a Chilean folk-rock band that came together in October 2021. Their music captures the essence of nature, love, life, the ocean, rain, and the enchanting southern regions of Chile. Their captivating sound can be described as semi-acoustic, creating a unique blend of melodies. They have shared the stage with renowned Chilean bands like Voodoo Zombie, La Dolce Vita, Melancólico y Violento, Perdentos, and La Rox, among others. Currently, the…

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BlutEngel (Blood Angel) is a German electronic, dark pop band, formed by the singer Chris Pohl. Some songs are in English and others in German. Several of their songs include female vocals, that are performed by Ulrike Goldmann.  My story with the band began in 2019. In that year I started learning German and after looking for bands that sing in German, other than Rammstein, I found BlutEngel and liked them immediately. I wanted to…

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Bon Jovi has always been one of my favorite bands. I know that a lot of people consider them a commercial, soft band, but for me, they represent positive thinking, and their music and lyrics give me strength when times get hard. When I feel down or when I’ve listened to some other darker bands, I have to listen to a couple of Bon Jovi’s songs to cheer me up again. I’ve seen them playing…

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